Apple has achieved almost 10 percent of the entire French mobile phone market in 2009, according to leading French newspaper, Le Figaro.
The report ‘The iPhone, France’s favourite smartphone’ doesn’t provide sources for the claims, which underline the impact offering the device free of network exclusivity in the country has had on the local market.
Apple is alleged to have sold between 1.8 million and 2 million iPhones in France in 2009, the report states, giving the company a generous 8.5 percent share of the entire French mobile phone market.
This means Apple will have taken 20% of France mobile market value. "The French market is expected to grow this year through the sale of 3.5 million smartphones,
